Interesting doohickey! My car was made the year air guitar became a word. My father's car (or what's left of the original car) was made the year mathlete became a word. How fitting... he's an engineer, and I play bass in a handful of bands (he also happens to be able to afford gas)...

slang id how languages grow, yes, but the language should at least have the original phrase before it has the slang for it.

next dictionary: id means is

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Fri Dec 27, 2013 10:52 pm

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Re: Chat Thread 41: Mod Maker

It's one way it grows. Shakespeare used literally THOUSANDS of new words. Sure, he definitely used slang, some of it quite vulgar ( ) if you know the lingo, but he did come up with many new words too.The grammarphiles among us cringe when we see deliberate bad spelling and grammar though, including when it's slang.

As a writer and proofreader for a lot of stuff, grammar sucks. Most of my proofreading is requested by people who either aren't very experienced in writing, or who don't speak English as a first language. (It's even worse when it's both...)

When it comes to grammar, that's the major killer in stuff. I can still enjoy a rushed story full of plot holes if the grammar is alright, but I can't enjoy a well executed storyline if the grammar is sub-par.

And like Foxstar, I'm pretty relaxed when it comes to grammar. A lot of times in English, something eventually becomes an accepted way of writing because so many people were writing it like that before it was officially accepted that it just becomes normal.

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